Chapter 978: A Bunch of Things Occur (1/2)

The pupa here could already no longer be called Great Dippers. They had already experienced some changes. The first change was the deformation of their limbs. Slowly, over time, their limbs turned into stumps before vanishing entirely.

The second change was them obtaining the same trait as a Motor Fish. In other words, being able to swim in water by generating water currents. Their speed didn't seem to be on the same level as a Motor Fish, but they accounted for that with their offensive ability.

They still possessed their tongue, and it was faster and stronger than before. Krune could feel that they were evolving significantly, judging by the speed of their growth. Nevertheless, it wasn't enough for him. After all, his end goal was to cause them to reach the peak power strength of Layer 3.

For that, he had to increase their evolution potential. For that, he first left them to their devices, ensuring to impede their cocoon stage by always keeping the temperatures around them to below optimal the moment he noticed they began to weave a cocoon.

While doing so, he noticed that it seemed a lot of energy was expended to initiate this process. So, when it was impeded, they didn't attempt to do it for another month. While keeping them as is, Krune focused on the Motor Fishes, those he determined were key to the fruition of his plan.

The first batch of Motor Fish Kings had grown a horn and all that due to being fed bone tree fruits from a variety of fishes. But Krune didn't want that. He wished for them to remain as Motor Fishes to the end, tamed.

So, once they became Mutated Motor Fishes, Krune caused them to selectively breed with the most powerful among them, even going to the extent of creating a large pool for them to live and swim within.

As the area in a rock pillar was limited, he supplemented it with depth, creating deep pools so that they would have a lot of room to plan and move around. And this way, they would exhaust energy tremendous and consume bone tree fruits even more.

Most of the bone tree fruits fed to them were those that grew naturally using the ocean water. But among them, he mixed in some that were grown using their blood. This way, he was trying to accumulate more Blood Essence of their race in their bodies.

As time passed, it seemed to be working as the Mutated Motor Fishes surpassed their natural restriction and eventually became Motor Fish Kings. It had been five years since they had arrived at the Secondary Landmass when the Motor Fishes became Kings.

As they were still Motor Fishes, they were tamed by him, even though they were kings. Krune had a total of 10 Motor Fish Kings under him and almost a hundred Mutated Motor Fishes now. Having been working nonstop for years, he had developed the place significantly.

As for the Seamstress, she too had her respective gains. As for Solare, from morning to until he slept, he hopped around from his working place to the Seamstress. On seeing that he was having fun, they left him to his devices, teaching him the alphabet, language, and numerous other skills during their resting time.

They hadn't figured out his passive abilities yet, but he was still young, so they weren't pressed for time.

One fine day, while he was working, Krune felt something instinctively, summoning his tablet to see that he was notified of a message.

[The First King, Gehen has captured a Primary Landmass, designating humanity's first stronghold.]

There was then a large arrow mark on the tablet, pointing in the direction they had to travel before reaching the location.

”Way to go.” Krune smiled and retracted his tablet, muttering, ”Now, we don't need to worry about a place to head towards.”

Even otherwise, it wasn't their concern in the first place. After all, the Seamstress had already marked Gehen's pirate ship and a couple other places using her passive ability, Bubble Touch. So, one way or another, they would be able to reach a Checkpoint Turtle without getting lost.

Krune checked the condition of the six pupae that were grown using the bone tree fruits from the Motor Fish blood. At the start, they fed on the Mutated Motor Fish blood-based bone tree fruits. Once a Motor Fish King had been birthed, Krune only used their blood to create bone tree fruits and feed them.

Because of that, they had also reached the status of a King. Krune didn't know what species they were now, but he could determine that they were no longer a Great Dipper.

Appearance-wise, they were still the same as the start, possessing a limb-less body with a powerful tongue. And once they had become kings, it seemed they got a further boost in power as their tongues were able to damage the cage he had created.

Then again, Krune wasn't worried because he had already expanded the thickness of the cage to a crazy extent. This way, even if they continued to attack for an entire day, they would only be able to crack through half the thickness.

After that, they would become tired. Once they rested and recovered, they would see to their dismay that the cage had fully healed from the damage. As the cages were damaged and healed daily, it seemed to have experienced a tempering of sorts.